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Yasuzo Masumura (増村 保造, Masumura Yasuzō, August 25, 1924 – November 23, 1986) was a Japanese film director.

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Yasuzo Masumura
Born	(1924-08-25)August 25, 1924 Kōfu, Yamanashi, Japan
Died	23 November 1986(1986-11-23) (aged 62) Japan
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter

Biography

Masumura was born in Kōfu, Yamanashi.[1] After dropping out of a law course at the University of Tokyo he worked as an assistant director at the Daiei Film studio,[1] later returning to university to study philosophy; he graduated in 1949. He then won a scholarship allowing him to study film in Italy at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia under Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti.[2]

Masumura returned to Japan in 1953. From 1955, he worked as a second-unit director on films directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa and Daisuke Ito, before directing his own first film, Kisses, in 1957.[3] Over the next three decades, he directed 58 films in a variety of genres.[4]

Legacy

Japanese film critic Shigehiko Hasumi said, "Young and influential filmmaker Shinji Aoyama declared that Masumura is the most important filmmaker in the history of postwar Japanese cinema."[5]

Filmography

Title	Year	Credited as			Notes	Ref(s)
		Director	Screenwriter	Assistant director
Princess Yang Kwei Fei	1955			Yes		[6]
Street of Shame	1956			Yes		[6]
Punishment Room	1956			Yes		[6]
Nihonbashi	1956			Yes		[6]
The Crowded Streetcar	1957			Yes		[6]
Kisses	1957	Yes				[6]
The Blue Sky Maiden	1957	Yes				[6]
Warm Current	1957	Yes				[6]
The Precipice	1958	Yes				[7]
Giants and Toys	1958	Yes				[7]
The Lowest Man	1958	Yes				[7]
Undutiful Street	1958	Yes				[7]
The Most Valuable Madam	1959	Yes				[7]
The Cast-Off	1959	Yes				[7]
Beauty the Enemy	1959	Yes				[7]
Across Darkness	1959	Yes				[7]
A Woman's Testament	1960	Yes			Omnibus film. Masumura directed the first segment.	[7]
Afraid to Die	1960	Yes				[7]
The Woman Who Touched the Legs	1960	Yes				[7]
A False Student	1960	Yes				[8]
Desperate to Love	1961	Yes				[8]
A Lustful Man	1961	Yes				[8]
A Wife Confesses	1961	Yes				[8]
The Burdened Sisters	1961	Yes				[8]
Stolen Pleasure	1962	Yes				[8]
Black Test Car	1962	Yes				[8]
Life of a Woman	1962	Yes				[8]
The Black Report	1963	Yes				[8]
When Women Lie	1963	Yes				[8]
Band of Pure-Hearted Hoodlums	1963	Yes				[8]
Modern Fraud Story: Cheat	1964	Yes				[9]
With My Husband's Consent	1964	Yes				[9]
Seventeen-year-old Wolf	1964		Yes			[10]
Manji	1964	Yes				[9]
Super-Express	1964	Yes				[9]
Hoodlum Soldier	1965	Yes				[9]
Seisaku's Wife	1965	Yes				[9]
Irezumi	1966	Yes				[9]
Nakano Spy School	1966	Yes				[9]
Red Angel	1966	Yes				[9]
Two Wives	1967	Yes				[9]
A Certain Killer	1967		Yes			[10]
Just for You	1967		Yes			[10]
A Fool's Love	1967	Yes				[9]
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka	1967	Yes				[11]
Evil Trio	1968	Yes				[11]
The Sex Check	1968	Yes				[11]
The House of Wooden Blocks	1968	Yes				[11]
One Day at Summer's End	1968	Yes				[11]
Blind Beast	1969	Yes				[11]
A Thousand Cranes	1969	Yes				[11]
'Vixen	1969	Yes				[11]
Electric Jellyfish	1970	Yes				[11]
Ode to the Yakuza	1970	Yes				[11]
The Hot Little Girl	1970	Yes				[11]
Games	1971	Yes				[12]
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line	1972	Yes				[12]
Music	1972	Yes				[12]
Hanzo the Razor:The Snare	1973	Yes				[12]
Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?	1974		Yes			[10]
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon	1974	Yes				[12]
Mainline to Terror	1975	Yes				[12]
Lullaby of the Earth	1976	Yes				[12]
The Love Suicides at Sonezaki	1978	Yes				[12]
The Garden of Eden	1980	Yes				[13]
For My Daughter's 7th Birthday	1982	Yes				[13]

References

External links

• Yasuzo Masumura at IMDb
• Yasuzo Masumura at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)

На других языках

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- [en] Yasuzo Masumura

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[ru] Масумура, Ясудзо

Ясудзо Масумура (яп. 増村 保造 Масумура Ясудзо:, 25 августа 1924, Кофу, Яманаси — 23 ноября 1986) — японский кинорежиссёр и сценарист. Автор многочисленных экранизаций произведений японских авторов XX века (особенно Танидзаки, эстетика которого был очень близка Масумуре), а также японской классики (Тикамацу Мондзаэмон). Испытал сильное влияние европейского кинематографа. Многие зрелые работы Масумуры характеризуются утончённым эротизмом, подвижной структурой повествования и подчёркнутой театральностью.

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